https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x Read each quotation from Gish Jen's story, "Who's Irish?". Then in a comment, write what you think the quotation reveals about the characters. en-us 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC 2023-11-01 20:20:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/2188620130/496098d060d4ca69c03537a8e43eb0a0/download.jpg lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515994 Why the Shea family have so much trouble? They are white people, they speak English. When I come to this country, I have no money and do not speak English. But my husband and I own our restaurant before he die. (4)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515994 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515995 You people too picky about what you sell. Selling egg rolls not good enough for you, but at least my husband and I can say, We made it. What can you say? (5)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515995 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515996 In China, daughter take care of mother. Here it is the other way around. Mother help daughter, mother ask, Anything else I can do? Otherwise daughter complain mother is not supportive. We do not have this word in Chinese, supportive. But my daughter too busy to listen, she has to to go meeting, she has to write 🤬 while her husband go to the gym to be a man. (5)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515996 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515998 Sophie is three year old American age, but already I see her Chinese side swallowed up by her wild Shea side. (6)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515998 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515999 Everything just right, only her skin is a brown surprise to John's family. So brown, they say. Even John say it. She. never goes in the sun still she is that color, he say. Brown. They say, Nothing the matter with brown. They are just surprised. So brown...Seems funny, a girl named Sophie Shea be brown. (6)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756515999 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516000 I was never against the marriage, you know, she say. I never thought John was marrying down. I always thought Nattie was just as good as white. 

I was never against the marriage either, I say. I just wonder if they look at the whole problem. (7)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516000 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516001 Nothing the matter with Sophie's outside, that's the truth. It is inside that she is like not any Chinese girl I ever see. We go to the park, and this is what she does. She stand up in the stroller. She take off all her clothes and throw them in the fountain. (8)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516001 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516002 In America, all day long people talk about creative. Never mind that I cannot even look at this Amy with her shirt so short that her belly button showing. This Amy thin Sophie should love her body. So when Sophie take off her diaper, Amy laugh. When Sophie run around naked, Amy say she wouldn't want to wear a diaper either. When Sophie go shu-shu in her lap, Amy laugh and say there are no germs in pee. (8)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516002 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516003 I don't want you to touch Sophie, she say. No spanking, period.

Don't tell me what to do, I say.

I'm not telling you what to do, say my daughter. I'm telling you how I feel.

I am not your servant, I say. Don't. you dare talk to me like that. (9)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516003 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516004 Use your words, my daughter say. That's what we tell Sophie. How about if you set a good example?

As if good example mean anything to Sophie. I am so fierce, the gang members who use to come to the restaurant all afraid of me, but Sophie is not afraid. (9)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516004 lneufeld3 https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516005 Still Sophie take off her clothes, until one day I spank her. Not too hard, but she cry and cry, and when I tell her if she doesn't put her clothes back on I'll spank her again, she put her clothes back on. Then I tell her she is good girl, and give her some food to eat. The next day we go to the park and, like a nice Chinese girl, she does not take off her clothes. (10)]]> 2023-10-20 16:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lneufeld3/ogfrvduve44q6v3x/wish/2756516005